Oflag VII-A Murnau was a German Army prisoner-of-war camp for Polish Army officers during World War II. It was located 2 km (1.2 mi) north of the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee.
| Oflag VII-A | |
|---|---|
| Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria | |
 A group of Polish officers in Oflag VII-A | |
  Oflag VII-A | |
| Coordinates | 47°41′26″N 11°12′18″E / 47.690442°N 11.205106°E |
| Type | Prisoner-of-war camp |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by |  Nazi Germany |
| Site history | |
| In use | 1939-1945 |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Garrison information | |
| Occupants | Polish Army officers |
Camp history
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The camp was created in September 1939. It consisted of an enclosure 200 m (660 ft) square, surrounded with barbed wire and guard towers. Immediately after the German invasion of Poland, at the beginning of World War II, some 1,000 Polish officers were imprisoned there. On April 27, 1942, additional Polish POWs were transferred there from the so-called "Generals' Camp" Oflag VIII-E in Janské Koupele in German-occupied Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic). After the failed Warsaw Uprising and Operation Tempest more prisoners were brought there from Poland. By early 1945 the number of POWs held in the camp reached over 5,000.
The camps was liberated by troops of the U.S. 12th Armored Division on 29 April 1945.[1]
List of notable prisoners
editAmong those imprisoned in Murnau were:
Rear Admiral (Kontradmirał)
editDivisional Generals (Generał dywizji)
editBrigade Generals (Generał brygady)
edit- Roman Abraham
- Franciszek Alter
- Władysław Bończa-Uzdowski
- Leopold Cehak
- Jan Chmurowicz
- Walerian Czuma
- Franciszek Dindorf-Ankowicz
- Juliusz Drapella
- Janusz Gąsiorowski
- Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
- Wincenty Kowalski
- Jan Kazimierz Kruszewski
- Józef Kwaciszewski
- Stanisław Małachowski
- Czesław Młot-Fijałkowski
- Bernard Mond
- Zygmunt Piasecki
- Wacław Piekarski
- Zygmunt Podhorski
- Emil Przedrzymirski-Krukowicz
- Zdzisław Przyjałkowski
- Jan Jagmin-Sadowski
- Antoni Szylling
- Stanisław Taczak
- Wiktor Thommée
- Juliusz Zulauf
Officers
edit- Witold Pilecki, former prisoner no 4859 of Auschwitz under assumed name of Tomasz Serafiński; Murnau prisoner no 101892[2][3]
Majors
editCaptains
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Pollack, Juliusz (1986). Jeńcy polscy w hitlerowskiej niewoli (in Polish). Wydawn. Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej. p. 213. ISBN 978-83-11-07251-0.
- ^ "Lest We Forget: Memory of Totalitariasim in Europe. Gillian Purves (ed.) p. 92" (PDF). Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Siwiecova 2, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ^ Piotr Stanek. Witold Pilecki. Jeniec wojenny nr 101892. Centralne Muzeum Jeńców Wojennych, Opole 2022. 80pp.
External links
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- Life in Murnau (in Polish)
- The forgotten photos